Senior Applied Scientist – Search, NLP/GenAI

Thomson Reuters

. Innovate & Deliver: Design, build, test, and deploy end-to-end AI solutions for complex document understanding tasks in the legal domain .

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeZug • 🇨🇭 SwitzerlandSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonPyTorch

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Innovate & Deliver: Design, build, test, and deploy end-to-end AI solutions for complex document understanding tasks in the legal domain
Develop advanced models for semantic chunking of lengthy, non-uniformly structured legal documents
Build document enrichment systems that classify documents according to legal and customer-defined taxonomies and extract rich metadata
Create LLM-based knowledge graph construction pipelines that extract and link heterogeneous legal knowledge
Drive Technical Decisions: Determine appropriate architectures for challenging document understanding problems
Align & Communicate: Partner closely with Engineering and Product teams to translate complex legal document understanding challenges into scalable, production-ready solutions

Requirements

What you’ll need

PhD in Computer Science, AI, NLP, or a related field, or a Master's with equivalent research/industry experience
Demonstrable hands-on experience building and deploying document understanding systems, information extraction pipelines, or knowledge graph construction using deep learning, LLMs and NLP methods
Proven ability to translate complex document understanding problems into innovative AI applications that balance accuracy and efficiency
Professional experience scaling yourself and leading through others, in an applied research setting
Strong programming skills (e.g., Python) and experience with modern deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, DeepSpeed)
Publications at relevant venues such as ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, NeurIPS, SIGIR, KDD

Benefits

Comp & perks

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role)
Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI solutionsdocument understanding systemsinformation extraction pipelinesknowledge graph constructiondeep learningNLPsemantic chunkingmetadata extractionprogramming (Python)modern deep learning frameworks

Soft Skills

innovationcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingleadershipscalabilitytranslating complex problemsefficiency balancing

Certifications

PhD in Computer ScienceMaster's in AI or related field